Providers' Perspective on the Feasibility of Digital Self-Management of Blood Pressure in Refugees: Mixed Methods Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mass displacement is a grand public health challenge. Refugees and immigrants experience a disparate hypertension burden and disparities in self-management. Successful hypertension self-management is key for improving outcomes, but research on its feasibility in refugee and immigrant health care settings is limited.

Objective

This study aimed to identify clinic staff-perceived barriers to and facilitators of implementing a digital intervention for hypertension self-management among refugee and immigrant patients and to identify its feasibility and usability.

Methods

Primary care physicians and medical assistants who care for refugees and immigrants in San Diego were interviewed using human-centered semistructured methods (n=18). Interviews were analyzed usi

SUBMITTER: Gonzalez C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12551932 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature